fiction

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose. countable,uncountable
    — I am a great reader of fiction.
  2. A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead). countable,uncountable
    — The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.
  3. A legal fiction. countable,uncountable

词形变化

fictions plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti
Proto-Italic *θingō
Proto-Italic *fingōder.
Latin fingō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin fictiōder.
Old French ficcionbor.
Middle English ficcioun
English fiction
From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”). Displaced native Old English lēasspell (literally “false story”); see feign, feint, figment.
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